Should you dump someone over their politics?

As Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer is slammed for dating a Republican...

‘ I’m a Jew married to a Christian Tory. out.’ Love will

NO

TWITTER has learned that actress Jodie Comer is dating a republican who is presumed to be a Donald trump supporter: a man named James Burke.

She must, the cancel club has decided, ditch him for someone who shares her Leftist politics. if she won’t, the hashtag #jodiecomer isoverparty may trend for ever.

But the idea that you cannot love, or sleep with, someone who does not share your politics is the height of narcissism. Do you want to look at your love and see only a mirror image of yourself? Where is the excitement — or the jeopardy — in that? isn’t that self-love, rather than love?

it is fashionable, on the madder reaches of the Left, to hate your political opponent, and to refuse to engage with them: to ‘no-platform’ them. this is not only bad politics, as the last election showed — who would have guessed that people prefer persuasion to being screamed at? — it also reduces those in your life to a collection of people who share your views.

if you allow yourself to be so limited, you won’t change as you age, and you will lose the ability to be surprised. You will end up being the sort of person who shouts at bus stops. i am a social democratic Jew and eight years ago i married a Christian tory. i think we were both baffled, but love will out.

i shout at him when election time comes, of course, and i think the resurrection probably didn’t happen, but i feel that i have no right to change his views, which are, to be fair, wettish tory. i wouldn’t want to. if he changed himself for me, and became a person in my image, would there be anything left of him to love?

i find his country toryism seductive, with its promise of Agas and wet dogs and transgressive kisses in front of newsnight.

it does rather limit your sexual opportunities if you are only prepared to jump into bed with people who want to talk about how great rebecca Long-Bailey is.

My suspicion is that young far-Leftists date their mirrors because they are too cowed to date opponents, then dash off to watch porn alone.

Wouldn’t they rather shout at russia’s Vladimir Putin, turkey’s recep tayyip Erdogan or Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, or any other tin-pot tyrant thriving across the globe while the Left polices attraction?

this invasion of people’s private lives is outrageous. i hope Jodie ignores her critics. Social media won’t keep you warm at night.